Commode or closet seat.



No. 876,705, PATENTED JAN. 14

ms'mmw H. BETHEL. common 03 swam SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED APB. 4, 1807.

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Wi tn eases UNITED STATE GLEVENGER A. EASTMAN AND RICHARD H. BETHEL, 01? CHARLOTTE, NQRilH OrlROLINA.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CLEVENGER A. EAsT- MAN and RIOHARD H. BETHEL, citizens of the United States, residing at Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenbur and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gommode or Closet eats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an irnproved construction of commode seat' or closet seat whichwill not Warp or break, and which will be cheap to manufacture and durable .in construction and the invention consists in a seat of this general character composed of wood pulp, straw, paper, or I similar fibrous and molded or compressed material, reinforced by wire screening and by strengthening Wires embedded, therein, and the invention also consists in certain constructions and arrangements .Off the parts which we shall now hereinafter fully describe and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

For a full understandim of the invention and the merits thereof anc also to acquire a know edge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the seat constructed in accordance with the improvements of our invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of'the lid and the seat, the lid being thrown back. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the lid and seat. Fig. 4 is 'a transverse view taken through the seat shown in Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views oi the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the present embodiment of the invention we have illustrated the same as applied to both a seat proper 1 and its lid or cover 2. These are composed of wood pulp, straw, or paper, and are reinforced by wire screen work 3 embedded therein in' the course of manufacture, the wire mesh extending throughout the entire area and its lid.

To further reinforce the parts we provide curved reinforcing wires 4 and 5 that are embedded in the structures and are so curved as tofconform to the marginal contours of the parts, said reinforcing Wires 4 and 5 lying within the margins and having their l em tremities projecting at one end of both parts and formed into hinges 6. Th s it will be seen that the reinforcing wires 1} and 5 not only assist the wire mesh 3 in strengthening and reinforcing the parts, but they also serve the additiona function an attaching means whereby one part may behinged to the other. in addition to the Wire 4, the seat 1 may be provided strengthening wire '7 extending across the same in the rear of the usual opening in the seat and connected at both en to the wire 4:.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that we have provided a very simple and durable construction of commode or closet seat, which will not Warp or break and which will outlast the usual wooden seat.

Having thus described the invention, we claim as new l. n closet "eat and its lid provided with wire mesh enihedded therein a ..d. with reinforcing wires extending therethrough and conforming; substani';ially to the marginal outlines thereof but lying within the mar gins, the extremities of said wires projecting from the ends oi the and lid together.

A closet seat its lid, provided with wire mesh embedded therein and with reinforcing wires extending therethrough and! conforming substantially to the i'narginall outlines thereof but lying within.themar ins, the extremities of said wires projecting from. the ends of the seat and lid and hinged together, and a reinforcing wire ein-- bedded in the seat at the rear of the usuall what and hinged.

' opening therein with its ends secured to they reinforein; wire of said In testimony whereof we our signs-- tures in presence of two witnesses.

CLEY'ENGEi-l A. alsriils. a] 1210M an H. Bilillllh. [a a},

Witnesses W. M. Moses, H. J. Wrmnns.

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